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He played in casinos worldwide with a plan to amass unimaginable wealth, but it nearly cost him his life. Semyon Dukach, the Darling of Las Vegas, became a legend at just twenty-one, a high roller with a revolutionary system that casinos couldn’t counter—one that was neither illegal nor based on card counting. From Las Vegas to Atlantic City, Aruba to Monte Carlo, Dukach and his fellow MIT students took the gambling world by storm, making millions with audacious bets and fake identities. They navigated the balance between academia and high-stakes gambling, storming blackjack tables on weekends while facing harassment, threats, and violence in the notorious underbelly of Vegas. The stakes were high, and the dangers were real, but the team was undeterred. Dukach, bored with school and broke; Victor Cassius, the brilliant strategist; Owen Keller, whose dark past loomed; and Allie Simpson, clever and captivating, transformed from classroom geeks to unstoppable forces on the casino floor. This is Dukach's true story, a riveting tale of greed, excess, love, violence, and the power of statistics, delivering high-stakes entertainment at its finest.
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Busting Vegas, Semyon Dukach, Ben Mezrich
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Busting Vegas
- Subtitle
- The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Semyon Dukach, Ben Mezrich
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0060575115
- ISBN13
- 9780060575113
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Sports, Autobiographies & Memoirs, True Crime, Sports Biographies
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- He played in casinos worldwide with a plan to amass unimaginable wealth, but it nearly cost him his life. Semyon Dukach, the Darling of Las Vegas, became a legend at just twenty-one, a high roller with a revolutionary system that casinos couldn’t counter—one that was neither illegal nor based on card counting. From Las Vegas to Atlantic City, Aruba to Monte Carlo, Dukach and his fellow MIT students took the gambling world by storm, making millions with audacious bets and fake identities. They navigated the balance between academia and high-stakes gambling, storming blackjack tables on weekends while facing harassment, threats, and violence in the notorious underbelly of Vegas. The stakes were high, and the dangers were real, but the team was undeterred. Dukach, bored with school and broke; Victor Cassius, the brilliant strategist; Owen Keller, whose dark past loomed; and Allie Simpson, clever and captivating, transformed from classroom geeks to unstoppable forces on the casino floor. This is Dukach's true story, a riveting tale of greed, excess, love, violence, and the power of statistics, delivering high-stakes entertainment at its finest.